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The Yoga Instructor
 Ganga Devi is the director and principal teacher of the Himalayan Yoga Institute and has been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation for over two and a half decades. She discovered the practices while writing her final thesis at university and preparing for a career as an interpreter and a high school professor of German language and literature. Her life was to take a different direction after she came in touch with the ancient yogic science.
After receiving initiation into the spiritual path of yogic meditation, she decided to spend time in India and deepen her practice. There she discovered that Indian Classical Dance and Music is a complementary pursuit and actually a yoga in itself. Her background in various other styles of dance, ballet and contemporary styles, have provided a vast background and strong basis to embark on the path of two parallel careers: that of a yoga and meditation instructor as well as a performing dance artist. While in India she devoted herself to the in depth study of a variety of subjects, including Eastern metaphysics, philosophy, Sanskrit, several living Indian languages, vocal music, percussion, the art of abhinaya (mimic or expressive dance), Indian classical dance and yoga.
Today she devotes her time to serious seekers and also teaches yoga for beginners, to people who want to learn more about the time-tested practice of yoga. She has worked as the director of a yoga centre in Northern California, USA, for five years and has taught yoga to youth, adults and children and has engaged in community service as well, teaching yoga to inmates, university students and at various health and women's centres. She has furthermore taught classes, workshops and seminars on yoga, diet and lifestyle in India, Germany, Croatia and the UK. She is a senior yoga instructor of the highest level registered with Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500).
She adapts the style of yoga (Hatha, Dynamic Vinyasa, Restorative, Sivananda, Tantra Yoga) to individual needs and offers services as a life coach as well, offering life and spiritual coaching sessions.
Ganga Devi has been sharing her wealth of knowledge on teacher training courses for many years, guiding yoga students who desire to take the next step and assisiting them in becoming well-rounded, competent, knowledgable, intuitive and confident yoga teachers themselves. She also organises yoga retreat vacations, in beautiful, natural settings, in India, Croatia, France and the UK providing opportunities to regenerate and immerse oneself in the life-transforming practices of yoga and meditation. At present she lives in London, where she teaches Yoga, Meditation and Indian Classical Dance.
She is very well respected and sought after as a yoga teacher and and has developed a unique style of teaching which is a result of a wealth of knowledge and experience gained throughout many years of practice and teaching yoga to a variety of people with different needs and levels of ability.
She has produced a CD with kiirtan chanting and a devotional music CD with poetry and music for meditation, which are much loved by her yoga students.
Senior Yoga Instructor registered with YOGA ALLIANCE (E-RYT 500)
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Teaching Credentials
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| Training & Experience |
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| 2009 |
Sivananda yoga teacher’s training (certificate) |
| 1999 |
Yoga Master Teacher training in Himachal Pradesh, India, at the Himalayan Institute of Integrated Therapies (certificate) |
| 1996/2001 |
Director and master teacher of the Yoga and Meditation centre “Ananda Dhiira” in Northern California, USA |
| 1995/96 |
Meditation, Yoga, Philosophy and Yogic Lifestyle teacher’s training at the ‘Seva Dharma Mission’ in Bangalore, India. |
| 1990 – 1994 |
Study of Yoga, Indian classical dance and music in Chennai, India |
| 1989 – 1990 |
Meditation and Yoga Intensives in Calcutta, India |
| 1977 – 1986 |
‘The State School of Classical Dance’, Zagreb, Croatia. |
| 1975 – 1977 |
Ballet classes with former primaballerina in Darmstadt, Germany. |
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| Voice of the Teacher |
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I have been practising yoga and meditation since 1988 and have spent many years in India where I have deepened my understanding and practice of yoga. I started receiving instruction in yoga and meditation in 1988 and started teaching in 1989. When I was introduced to yoga I embarked on a marvellous and deeply revealing journey into my own Self. In the early years of my practice I experienced deep healing, beauty and grace. And a deep love for all awakened the desire within me to share this precious gift with others. Thus the desire to teach meditation and yoga was born.
I completed a year long Meditation teacher’s training in 1995/6 at Seva Dharma Mission, in Bangalore, India, which prepared me for a life as a spiritual teacher. During that year, I had the chance to devote myself exclusively to meditation practices and studies of the intuitional science and philosophy of yoga and I had the most profound mystical and spiritual experiences. A few years later I became a Yoga Master Teacher after completing a six months personalized training with the now deceased Himalayan Yoga Master and yogic monk Pranavananda in 1999 at the Himalayan Institute of Integrated Therapies, in Himachal Pradesh, Kullu, India.
I wished to explore various styles and paths of yoga and hence in 2009 I also completed a Sivananda Yoga teacher’s training, in Vrindavan, India.
A dream came true when I was appointed as the Director of the “Ananda Dhiira” Yoga and Wellness centre in 1996 in California USA, where I was teaching classes, workshops and conducting seminars on philosophy, lifestyle, yoga techniques on- and offsite. I have worked as a yoga teacher in the UK, Germany, Croatia, India and the US.
Alongside yoga I have also been dancing practically all my life and have been trained in various styles of dance: ballet, contemporary dance, jazz and Dunham. Since 1990 I have chosen to pursue Indian Classical dance as a career and have since performed in India and all over Europe. At present I teach both yoga and dance to sincere students in London, India and Croatia.
My vast experience in yoga, dance and meditation, and the opportunity to learn from genuine masters, have helped me to greatly deepen my practical as well as intuitive understanding of the art and science of yoga and the spiritual mysticism inherent in it.
For more information about the Yoga Teacher Training Courses, classes, retreats and yoga holidays you may contact us:
Tel: +44 (0)7969 157994
Email: info@himalayanyogainstitute.com
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